Ray v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• requiring the declarant of the § 3507 statement testify as to the truthfulness of the statement
• finding reversible error in the admission of a child victim’s out-of-court statements, which included using anatomically correct dolls to depict the assault, where the proper foundation under 11 Del. C. § 3507 was not provided
• “[A] witness’ statement may be introduced only if ... the witness testifies about both the events and whether or not they are true.”
• “[A] witness statement may be introduced only if . . . the witness testifies about both the events and whether or not they are true.”
• discovery violations subject to reversal if substantial rights of the accused are prejudicially affected
• improper for prosecution to imply that victim will suffer if jury finds defendant innocent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Robertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-07-31· cited 124×
• Hoskins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-09-22· cited 89×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-04-06· cited 55×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-07-15· cited 50×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-09-25· cited 36×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-10-05· cited 35×
• Demby v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-07-10· cited 26×
• Secrest v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-05-31· cited 26×
• Purnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-11-21· cited 26×
• Medical Center of Delaware, Inc. v. Lougheed
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-06-23· cited 25×
• Oliver v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-02-04· cited 18×
• Collins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-11-15· cited 17×
• Doran v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-04-03· cited 15×
• Gomez v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-07-28· cited 13×
• State v. Flowers
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-10-21· cited 13×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-05-16· cited 12×
• Hopkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-03-02· cited 12×
• Hoskins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-02-22· cited 10×
• State v. Rodriguez
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1994-12-29· cited 9×
• Estate of Swan v. Balan
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-09-09· cited 3×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• Hughes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-11-18· cited 172×
• Skinner v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-05-11· cited 111×
• Weber v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-08-23· cited 89×
• Wheat v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-06-11· cited 87×
• Keys v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-03-14· cited 71×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-04-29· cited 28×
• Tucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-09-11· cited 23×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-11-17· cited 19×